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THE BRITISH LIBRARY: A PUBLIC LIBRARIAN'S VIEW
NEIL A. SIMPSONApart from its unfortunate sharing of initials with another nationalized organization whose record is much less distinguished, though much more familiar to the general public, the…
THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND THE SHIRE COUNTY
J.E. GALTIt would be quite impossible to assess the true value of the British Library as a national support service to any library authority without first sketching the historical…
THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: A VIEW FROM A BELEAGUERED IVORY TOWER
F.H. AYRESFor centuries the university library has been looked on by both its users and its custodians as something which is inert and lifeless. Paradoxically it has also had a steady…
THE BRITISH LIBRARY: A POLYTECHNIC PERSPECTIVE
D.H. REVILLThe establishment of the British Library (BL) from the Parry Report of 1967, through Dainton in 1969, to the White Paper of 1971 and the Act of 1972, was contemporaneous with the…
THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH LIBRARIES
M.A. SIMKINSDonald Urquhart has stated again his excellent principle that libraries are for users. The following is the very personal view of one user—from a research‐based industry—of what I…
THE ESTIMATION OF TERM RELEVANCE WEIGHTS USING RELEVANCE FEEDBACK
HARRY WU, GERARD SALTONThe term relevance weighting method has been shown to produce optimal information retrieval queries under well‐defined conditions. Unfortunately, the relevance weights cannot be…
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